The passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight 370

There were 12 crew members and 227 passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that disappeared on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8. The passengers were from all over the world. Here is a look at some of those on board.

Pictured: A message of support was displayed at the wall of hope for the missing passengers of the Malaysian Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport viewing gallery.

Firman Siregar

This family photo shows Firman Siregar, of Indonesia, on his university graduation day.

This family photo shows Firman Chandra Siregar (center) posing with his brother and sisters.

Ju Khun

Ju Khun was a stunt man whose credits include the acclaimed martial arts epic “The Grandmaster.”

Pictured: Kun on the back lot of the new Pinewood Studios in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Ahmad Razahan and Norli Akmar Hamid

Ahmad Razahan (bottom right), 24, and his wife Norli Akmar Hamid, 33 were traveling on their honeymoon.

Pictured: This photo taken on March 7, 2014 and released by Hamid Ramlan shows his daughter Norli Akmar Hamid (second from right) and her husband Razahan Zamani (right), posing with relatives before take-off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing

Family members showed the couple’s wedding pictures.

Sugianto Lo and Vinny Chynthya

This photo released by the family of Sugianto Lo shows Sugianto Lo (left) with his wife Vinny Chyntya and their two children. The couple was from Indonesia.

Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad

Pouri Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 18, was one of two men traveling on Malaysia Airlines flight 370 with a stolen passport. News of the stolen passports initially sparked suspicion abut terrorism, but Mehrdad and the other man were cleared of any link to terror groups. Officials said Mehrdad was an Iranian asylum seeker, according to Time.

Syed Mohammad Reza

Syed Mohammad Reza, 29, was one of two men traveling on Malaysia Airlines flight 370 with a stolen passport. News of the stolen passports initially sparked suspicion abut terrorism, but Reza and the other man were cleared of any link to terror groups. Officials said the other man, Mehrdad Pouri Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 18, was an Iranian asylum seeker, according to Time.

Zaharie Ahmad Shah

The flight’s pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah (right), 53, joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of flight experience. People who knew Zaharie from his involvement in opposition political circles in Malaysia and other areas of his life described him as sociable, humble, caring, and dedicated to his job.

Pictured: Peter Chong held a smartphone displaying a picture of himself with missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah (right) during an interview with Reuters.

Philip Wood

Philip Wood’s family saw him in Texas before what was meant to be his last work trip to China as an executive for IBM. The 50-year-old Wood had recently earned his certification for scuba diving, one of the ways in which he satisfied his craving for adventure.

Wood had been working in Beijing over the past two years and had recently returned home from Asia before his next assignment in Kuala Lumpur.

Chandrika Sharma

Chandrika Sharma was married with a daughter and always called her mother twice before traveling. An NGO worker who was director of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, Chandrika was en route to Mongolia for a conference. Chandrika had always been concerned with the ‘‘poor and the powerless in society,’’ her mother said.

Pictured: Photographs showing Sharma (left) with her husband, Narendran, and daughter, Meghna, were displayed during a press conference in Chennai, India, on March 12, 2014.

Mohamad Khairul Amri Selamat

Mohamad Khairul Amri Selamat, 29, an aviation engineer with a private jet charter company and father of a 15-month-old daughter, was traveling to Beijing for work. Khairul had recently moved into a new house outside Kuala Lumpur and his family was planning to visit him when he returned from Beijing, said his father, Selamat Omar.

Pictured: Selamat Omar showed a picture of his son on March 16, 2014, in Putrajaya.

Meng Gaoshen

Prize-winning calligrapher Meng Gaosheng, 64, was leading a delegation of two dozen artists to Malaysia for a three-day exhibition titled ‘‘The China Dream, An Ode to Colors.’’ Meng’s works are among the collections on display in major tourist spots in Beijing.

Pictured: Gaosheng posed in front of pieces of his work on display at an exhibition of Chinese art in Kuala Lumpur just days before he boarded Malaysia Airlines flight 370 to Beijing.

Wang Linshi

Wang Linshi, 69, worked for the Chinese government in the eastern city of Nanjing until he retired, but his passion was painting, in particular chickens and roosters, according to his son, Wang Zhen. The elder Wang was traveling with Meng Gaosheng’s group.

Pictured: Linshi, posed for a picture in front of pieces of his work on display at an exhibition of Chinese art in Kuala Lumpur, just days before he boarded Malaysia Airlines flight 370 to Beijing.

Maimaitijiang Abula

Maimaitijiang Abula, a 34-year-old art teacher from China’s far west Xinjiang region, home to China’s Turkic-speaking Uighur ethnic minority, was abroad for the first time and part of the group of painters and calligraphers in Malaysia for an exhibition.

Pictured: Maimaitijiang Abula, an artist, poses for a picture in front of pieces of his work on display at an exhibition of Chinese art in Kuala Lumpur, just days before he boarded Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to Beijing.

A volunteer from an NGO called Malaysians For Malaysia got ready to release balloons as a symbol of remembrance for the victims of the ill-fated flight 370 atTitiwangsa Lake on March 30, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Messages expressing hope for family members of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were left at a Buddhist temple in Subang Jaya outside Kuala Lumpur on March 15, 2014.

Representatives from Muslim, Buddhist, and Christian religions lit candles during a vigil to remember the victims of flight 370 on March 30, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A mural was created as part of solidarity action by concerned artists for the passengers and crew of the missing plane.

Pictured: Students stood next to a giant mural featuring missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 displayed on the grounds of their school in Manila’s financial district of Makati on March 18, 2014.

Indian sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik applied the final touches to a sand art sculpture he created wishing for the well being of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight 370, on a beach in Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on March 9, 2014. )

Students at Hailiang International School lit candles to pray for the passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in Zhuji, in China’s Zhejiang province on March 10, 2014.

A wall at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia held messages and notes for the passengers of the missing jetliner.

Pictured: A woman read the messages after leaving her on note on the wall.